On Friday, Elon Musk’s SpaceX had launched several rockets in a calendar year by breaking its own record. It was at the top of the list last year with the slate of 31 missions amid a whirlwind campaign which was to launch its own internet satellites into orbit.

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SpaceX had broken its record for number of rockets launched in a calendar year
The mission has been taken away from the Vandenberg Space Force Base
Elon Musk has founded SpaceX in 2002

During the 32nd launch of 2022 of SpaceX, it has used its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket which comes as the company races to build a constellation of broadband satellites called Starlink. It is a usually a consumer-based service with hundreds of thousands of internet users.

Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX has tweeted after the successful mission where it has deployed 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. The tweet states “Congrats to SpaceX team on record number of launches!”

Well, the mission was taken away from the company’s Califonia launchsite at the Vandenberg Space Force Base. Nearly 3,000 Starlink satellites were launched so far to space by SpaceX.

The Friday’s mission has helped SpaceX to be on the pace to achieve its goal of about 52 orbital missions by the end of this year. It can even double its annual launch cadence with the reusable Falcon 9 that according to SpaceX could be reflown up to 15 times. The majority of such missions were scheduled to be in-house Starlink missions.

The company which was founded by Musk in 2002 had focused to normalize interplanetary travel, but this focus has got shifted in recent months from producing Falcon 9 rockets to managing a fleet of these already built, investing heavily in infrastructure for refurbishing boosters within speedy timelines.

The company has applied a similar strategy to its fleet of reusable Crew Dragons – gumdrop-shaped spacecraft that had launched atop the Falcon 9 and ferry humans to orbit and the International Space Station.

In the satellite internet race, SpaceX has launched Starlink satellites to space much faster than its rivals just like the satellite operator OneWeb, due in part to Falcon 9’s speedy reusability and also the edge which was related to use in-house rockets.

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